The heart is alive. In fact, it brings life to us with each pulsation, sending rivers of prāna flowing through our plasma, blood, muscle, fat, skeleton, marrow and finally, our vital reproductive juices. There it transforms into our very essence itself or leaves us to form a new life with another beautiful heartbeat singing its song!

This heart that is the fiery sun of our own universe, is ever producing our minds through its sensory rays and clear light! Mind as it spreads its venous tentacles to every sense organ so that we can fully experience the world around us. Mind that extends instinctively down into our bellies, so we vicariously feel each perceptive truth as a somatic experience. And mind, like a tree, sends its rising branches upwards to form our brain. Where we think, imagine, reason and occasionally perceive the highest truths.

And yet, we imprison this heart behind gates of arrogance, lust, hatred, greed, jealousy and pride. And we subject it cruelly to fears, unjustly to angers and unmercifully to grieving.

Our hearts are the key to our lives. Heal our heart and we heal our mind. In healing the mind we finally discard the undigested toxins of fear, anger and grief. And spontaneously and oh so creatively, the heart sings its joy and its simple innocent declaration- know me and know peace.

Upcoming Healing the Heart Workshops

May 8-10: Salt Lake City UT: Save the date! Hosted by Maria Radloff. Details and registration coming soon.
SLC friends, look for it in your mailboxes soon or reach out now to Maria to pre-book including your consultations.visit Maria’s website »

May 23/24: Save the date! Hosted by Jutta Hecht. Encinitas, CAEmail [email protected] to sign up or learn more. Space is very limited!

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
In the Vedic tradition, the heart is the seat of emotions, of prāna and of our intrinsic immunity. It is also the origin of the mind and it is from the heart that the mind as emotions moves towards the brain for intellectual understanding and the gut for instinctive behavior. If we free our emotional seat from the siege of its enemies: fear, anger and grief then the rightful emotions of playfulness, innocence and joy rule supreme once again. It is a journey of remembrance. One we should all take together. Yoga and Āyurveda show us the way to do so.WORKSHOP CURRICULA:
The Heart as Seat of Mind
The Qualities of the Heart: Creativity, Innocence and Joy
Understanding Heart Disease Through Āyurveda: Treating Through Yoga
The Enemies of the Heart: Fear, Anger and Grief
The Allies of the Heart: Resolve, Patience and Faith
Practicum: Emotional Intelligence Yoga Practice: Healing The Heart/Healing The Mind

More Healing the Heart Workshops to come later this year. If you would like to host one or know of a studio in your community that would, please let me know!

A heart to heart prayer:May we together be each others protection.
May we together nourish each other.
May we together become each others strength.
May we together become wise.
May we always be friends.
May we support each other in finding peace.

FALL 2019
October 2nd-16th

The Yogi’s Journey to India

Into the Forest,
By the Sacred River

Week One: The forest retreat
Week Two: The sacred river
$3200 Early Bird. Based on double occupancy.
Single Occupancy +$500
Deposit by June 15th. Complete payment by July 30.
$3500 Regular Price (After June 15)*
Single Occupancy +$500*

The magic of the Corbett National Park is where we begin. Tucked into a luxurious hideaway with delicious, homegrown organic meals, a lodge, a magnificent yoga hall and surrounded by the call of the wild. We spend a week here learning how to personalize our yoga and fit it into an ayurvedic lifestyle.

Ganges. The sacred river. At Rishikesh, one of the most vibrant, colorful stops along this holy river, we find her here as pristine as she can be, having just descended from her source. It is here that the great rsi’s of yore meditated. We will visit the temple where Siva swallowed the poison to save the world, the cave where Sage Vashishta did his meditation and celebrate the river every morning and evening with songs and fire. Here we will find the deeper meanings of yoga, for many say this is its root home and we will see it in all its colors!

RETREAT ITINERARY

Delhi: October 2-3

Arrive in Delhi, the capitol of India. You will be met at the airport. Spend a couple of days getting grounded. Includes a visit to the Lotus Temple for meditation. A drive around town. A lovely dinner at Arun’s family home…

and some good shopping to get you vetted into the ways…

Onwards to Corbett National Park: October 4-8

JJRetreat is a luxurious hideaway in the verdant Corbett National Park. Situated at the foothills of the Himalayas, Corbett is the most prominent wildlife sanctuary in India. Two jeep safaris are included that show you a rich variety of flora and fauna. Although a tiger sighting is rare, many species of deer and birds abound. In the distance you may see a herd of elephant when we pass through shallow grass.

The rustic cottages at JJR specialize in richly decorated tapestries and furnishings and all the comforts of home (except TV:). The cafe and restaurant serve exquisite food. Much of it provided by an organic garden brimming with vegetables. And the local cows, from their own backyards, provide fresh milk daily. The riverbed and adjoining village make for some excellent hiking. Here, in the magnificent yoga hall we will deepen our studies and begin the process of creating personal yoga practices that go from kriyas to asana to pranayama to meditation and contemplation. Practices that we bring home as a forever gift from India.

Rishikesh: October 9-14

Among all the sacred towns along the Ganges, Rishikesh is closest to its wild mountain waters. This holy town straddles both sides of the river, connecting mainly through two suspension bridges. The town is a haven for both tourists and ascetic holy men. Brimming with temples, artisan shops, local vegetarian restaurants, even an Italian pizza house, it will home us for 5 nights.

Here, we will do evening pujas,

hike to a legendary sage’s cave, optionally river raft, but most important of all we will worship the river and bring a deeper dimension to our yoga practice: that of chanting and worship. We will learn the true meaning of surrender is to find the joy of acceptance!

Delhi: October 15/16

Having taken the evening train from Rishikesh on the 14th and settling into our hotel, we wake up to our last day in India. A chance to catch our breath or do last minute shopping before taking a night flight home. Please note, most night flights leave after midnight and thus would officially be the 16!

The Retreat officially ends and India awaits any fearless explorers who wish to do more. YogaRasayana’s trusted travel agents are available to help with this!

Fine Print

The above prices include the following:

All group travel as stated. This includes all listed air and land travel during the Retreat. This specifically includes all group road travel to Corbett, Rishikesh and train from Rishikesh to Delhi. Any personally requested additional travel would be at your cost.

While at most lodging facilities, WiFi is included, be aware that we cannot guarantee its availability and quality.

What is NOT included:

Airfare/travel not specifically included above, including to/from your own starting and ending destinations, whether in the Americas, Europe, India or elsewhere.

Optional river boat rafting in Rishikesh.

Any additional excursions taken either as a group or individually that are not expressly mentioned above.

Massages at JJR (we have arranged special pricing but take no responsibility for quality of same.)

Optional additional jeep safaris (two are included)

Optional Ayurvedic massages in Rishikesh. We will arrange special prices at an authentic clinic.

Additional costs you may incur as a result of taking this trip including but not limited to passports, visas and other incidentals.

Additional incidentals you may incur such as laundry, phone calls, internet, alcoholic beverages, any foods or drinks not specifically covered above, or any items of a personal nature that are not expressly mentioned above.

All meals not expressly mentioned above.

Any transportation not expressly included above.

Any additional expenditure not expressly covered above whether of an individual nature or voluntarily as part of a group.

Tipping. (We will pool tips for Group Tipping wherever applicable. We estimate this to work out to around $75 total per person)

*Double Occupancy rates are based on a shared twin bed room. The Retreat organizers are not responsible for providing you a roommate. If two single people apply separately, the organizers will put each in touch with the other as a courtesy only.

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times

The Yoga Sutras are about the tradition of yoga. They clearly define the goal, the practices and the path. Although the paths and practices are numerous, the final goal is singular. It is peace of mind.

The transformation of patterns into essence.
To find ourselves and come to peace.

The legend is that the eternal serpent upon which rests pure consciousness was awakened by a restless moving of this consciousness. And was sent to seek an answer to end all such restlessness. Through observing the dance of Śiva he discovered yoga.

The beauty is its recognition that as individuals we all seek the same goal but are unable to break our patterns because we cannot put a name to our restlessness. When yoga leads us to this answer we are set free.

In this short weekend immersion we will imagine the final goal as Patañjali may have and we will then explore how to adapt the path to our individual states of being, and our own world circumstances. We may find that though much has changed in practice, nothing has changed in principal. Starting with the first chapter where the final goal is laid out in the first 15 sutras, we will jump to the second chapter to the practices for beginning the journey. Besides the traditional understandings of the classical commentaries, we will bring relevance to our own journeys here and now. And we will find how the traditional yoga can indeed infuse our modern practices.

This workshop is informed by a desire to show the huge potential of yoga and how āsana practice has the power to give us an inkling of this. When the āsana expands into something more, then we have begun the inner yoga.

REGISTER OR INQUIRE

[email protected] or call 310.435.4197
Consider registering early as space is limited. Late registration may mean no textbook available in time for class. You will however receive a copy shortly after.NOTE: times and prices vary by location.

Arun Deva DASc, AP-NAMA, AYT-NAMA, C-IAYT, YTRX is a senior Ayurvedic Practitioner, Certified Yoga Therapist, senior yoga teacher and a long time student of the philosophies of yoga, ayurveda and Buddhism. He travels and lectures around the world, is a Board member for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association, Director of Ayurveda for LMU Yoga Therapy program and the Chair of the Committee for Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy-NAMA.

RASA BHĀVA IMMERSION

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Rasa Bhāva, the art of rejuvenating the emotional body, is an ongoing practice. Like developing an unused muscle, it takes time, persistence and consistency.

This retreat is to both take it deeper, and to add dimensions to it that cannot be added in a workshop.

Plus…the flavor of India, its very rasa, adds a delicious secret spice to the recipe!

We begin in Kerala. At a beautiful Ayurvedic Retreat Center. Here we spend 5 full days immersed in the study of the Rasa Bhāva experience. To understand and manage our emotional body. Physically, mentally, psychically and spiritually, we will learn to occupy our own persona and move beyond our life long trainings in fear, anger and grief, and to occupy and remember our own original creativity, innocence and joy. As you will see below, this can be a pretty joyous experience.

And then we will take it out on the road! To see if we can be fully present, alive and positive to our surroundings, the beauty of ancient India: its palaces, forts, temples, colors, sights, sounds, aromas and tastes. We will of course visit the Taj Mahal, but also a magnificent Jain Temple. We will take a camel ride, stay in luxury tents, visit old royal villas, wander through ancient forts and living palaces. Having first nurtured with specific yogic and āyurvedic practices, we should now be ready to have a grand experience indeed!

Rasa Bhāva & Royal Tour India Retreat 2018!

September 26 – October 10

WE BEGIN AT THE SOMATHEERAM AYURVEDIC BEACH RESORT, KERALA:

Sept 26: Arrive early morning. Settle in and after lunch, orientation and puja, followed by a gentle afternoon practice ending with yoga nidra. Early evening luxuriate in full Āyurvedic treatments and let go of it all!

The Somatheeram resort is spread lushly over 15 acres of greenery on a hilltop overlooking Chowara Beach, south of Kovalam and a short drive away from Trivandrum. The gently sloping grounds are sprinkled with traditional thatched cottages and Kerala style wooden bungalows, nestled among native medicinal plants and coconut groves. We will stay in the Garden Cottages; independent thatched huts rooming two people.

Climbing up the hill you arrive at the Rejuvenation Center with a full staff of Ayurvedic Doctors, where you will receive your daily treatments…Kerala style!

The resort has a thatched restaurant with a panoramic view of the ocean, and delicious Ayurvedically prepared meals (3 vegetarian, dosha specific meals a day are included).

Oct 1: Morning practice, brunch and then on to our next adventure.

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Arrive Delhi late evening and layover for the night.

Oct 2: Early morning drive to Agra to visit the Taj Mahaland the Agra Fort. If you have never seen the Taj, it is spectacular and if you have, each visit is a little more special!

Oct 3/4: Drive to Jaipur, the Pink City. The very heart of this magical land called Rajasthan. A land known for its nobility, its hard desert fortitude and incredible grace. It’s where the homes are often villas of old (we will stay in one) and where the palaces and temples are beautifully colorful and the forts sit on formidable mountain tops, seeming impregnable.

Oct 4: Amber Fort, City Palace, and Jantar Mantar.Amber Fort is magnificently set on the top of a hill. We will take the rampart all the way by elephant (with luck), visit the courtyard and enter the inner palace. City Palace is still active as home to the current Maharaja. It is a spectacular setting with powerful museums and history. Jantar Mantar is the magic of 19 astronomical instruments including precise sun dials from the 1700’s!

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Oct 5/6: After our morning practice, drive to Pushkar! Stay in luxury tents. Ride on camels. Visit the famous Brahma Temple and shop around the lake for all kinds of amazing gifts (maybe even some for others). mp3/ali-ünal-i-tanıyanlar-telefonda.html|슈어맨|검증사이트|먹튀검증사이트|먹튀검증업체

Oct 7: After a morning practice, drive to Ranakpur. Some say the Jain Temple here is the most incredible of all. I fell in love with it when I was 19! Over 1400 carved pillars inside, none alike!

Oct 8: Visit our last most amazing Palace. Have a beautiful lunch at the Palace Restaurant! Afterwards, visit a powerful Vishnu Temple.

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Oct 10: Delhi. Our last day is dedicated to shopping. We will sightsee and shop, rest up and late at night (early Oct 11 morning), those who choose, fly home full of memories and also with full bags, to remind us of the magic of India.

The Retreat officially ends and India awaits any fearless explorers who wish to do more. YogaRasayana’s trusted travel agents are available to help with this! mp3/ali-ünal-i-tanıyanlar-telefonda.html|슈어맨|검증사이트|먹튀검증사이트|먹튀검증업체

Deposit of $500 per person will hold your space and price. Final payments must be completed by July 30 to maintain your Early Bird Price. After July 30 your deposit will continue to apply but will apply to the next tier: Regular Price $3700. If final payment is not received by August 30, your deposit can only apply to Late Registration Tier and becomes subject to space availability. Early Bird Deposits are 50% refundable for one month after initial deposit is received. After that they become nonrefundable.

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All group travel as stated. This includes all listed air and land travel during the Retreat. Any personally requested additional travel would be at your cost.

Airport pick up and drop off.

Lectures and all yoga sessions. Any personal consultations (with Arun) will be subject to time, availability and additional cost.

Shared Double Occupancy at all hotels and villas we stay at outside of Somatheeram. (Single Room Occupancy prices may be significantly higher and subject to availability.)

Morning and afternoon practices at Somatheeram.

Morning practices when possible on the road. (Some days have the mornings set aside for this, other days including days of travel and early sightseeing, we may not be practicing.)

Sangha sessions on the road when possible.

Specific Ayurvedic treatments at Somatheeram. Additional treatments may be available for an extra fee.

All meals (at Somatheeram).

All breakfasts on the road.

While at most lodging facilities, WiFi is included, be aware that we cannot guarantee its availability and quality.

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Airfare/travel not specifically included above, including to/from your own starting and ending destinations, whether in the Americas, Europe, India or elsewhere.

Tipping. (We will pool tips for group tipping wherever applicable. We estimate this to work out to around $150 total per person.)

Additional costs you may incur as a result of taking this trip including but not limited to passports, visas and other incidentals.

Additional incidentals you may incur such as laundry, phone calls, internet, alcoholic beverages, any foods or drinks not specifically covered above, or any items of a personal nature that are not expressly mentioned above.

All meals not expressly mentioned above. (Exclusions include lunches and dinners outside of Somatheeram.)

Any transportation not expressly included above.

Any additional expenditure not expressly covered above whether of an individual nature or voluntarily as part of a group.

WHAT IS RASA BHĀVA? mp3/ali-ünal-i-tanıyanlar-telefonda.html|슈어맨|검증사이트|먹튀검증사이트|먹튀검증업체

EMOTIONS: LANGUAGE OF THE HEART mp3/ali-ünal-i-tanıyanlar-telefonda.html|슈어맨|검증사이트|먹튀검증사이트|먹튀검증업체

In the ancient vedic sciences, the heart is considered the root of the mind.

While we are quite aware of the power of instinct and its home in the enteric gut and brain stem; and equally aware of the power of rational intelligence and its home in the neocortex; by assigning the home of emotions to the limbic region we may be missing its root source and doing a great disservice to our most important organ.

It is from the heart that the “felt sense” arises and thus mediates between instinct and reason. The connection between wisdom and compassion that gives rise to ethics and sharing is the state of our emotional body.

In trauma, this state is under attack and our emotions of joy, creativity, and innocence curdle into grief, rage and fear. Learning to decouple from trauma is always possible and trauma is not always clinical. It is not necessarily chronic or even acute. It can be that which simply interferes with compassion and wisdom in our day-to-day life. It forces us to contract into survival, into seeking perverse pleasures and often sinking into bouts of rage and frustration, into irrational cravings for control and domination, into a coldness of heart and even into fear of speaking our truth.

Combining the wisdom of yoga and Ayurveda and linking it with the language of somatic psychotherapies, we find that keys to healing trauma are the same keys that unlock us from fears, irrational tempers and grieving. They deliver us safely into being grounded: allowing enjoyments, senses of purpose, openings of the heart and the ability to live our truths.

These teachings are clear and practical in the yoga path. Once combined with the basic teachings of Ayurveda, such as diet, lifestyle and the proper use of exercise, they become powerful therapeutic tools.

When we free the heart of its bondage to life trauma, we open to the salve of the higher emotional states and enter into our own lives as warriors of light and love.

When the heart is set free we find courage, fortitude, grace, selflessness and we find the emotions that are our birthright and our pathways to freedom from suffering.

In these ancient sciences, we call this “sattvavajaya cikitsa”: the victory of truth.

In what I have coined rasa bhāva, we learn to cultivate the essence of the heart.

HOW DO WE UNDERSTAND THE EMOTIONAL BODY? mp3/ali-ünal-i-tanıyanlar-telefonda.html|슈어맨|검증사이트|먹튀검증사이트|먹튀검증업체

The link between the mind and the different organs/systems of the body is well researched and documented in Ayurveda. Now the progressive field of psychotherapy has related our instincts to our reptilian stem, our emotional to the limbic, and the rational to our neo-cortex.

In Āyurveda, however, the mind is not restricted to this structure, instead it begins in the heart, reaches downwards into the gut and upwards into the brain. The connections are easy to see as seats of instincts, feelings and sensation/thought. Therefore, all our instincts and our rational thinking revolve around the mediating emotional state.

When our emotional state is one of creativity, innocence and joy, we see beauty, feel compassion and instinctually open to universal waves of loving. However, when our emotions are dominated by fear, anger and grief, we become susceptible to the 6 enemies of the mind: lust, rage, greed, jealousy, envy and delusion. And our thinking and functionality begins to operate from these states. In Ayurveda, it is also said that if you wish to conquer these six enemies, there is no better pathway than that of yoga (sattvavajaya cikitsa).

After years of personal practice, study and teaching on the relationship of the emotional body to our health and our peace of mind, the results I have gained offer clear, succinct information on the use of these yogic tools. We will do actual practices to show their effectiveness in transforming fear, anger and grief into creativity, innocence and joy.

The Preliminaries: Diet, Lifestyle & Relationships affect every aspect of our lives as key pillars to health. This includes a clear understanding of food, sleep, exercise, and intimacy as part of daily living.

Relating these traditional practices to current western psychosomatic languages and understandings. How such understandings as the doshas, gunas, alternate nostril breathing, therapeutic vinyasas, mindfulness and other such yogic and Buddhist practices are related to advances being made in the field of psychotherapy.

Understanding the tools of yoga & ayurveda in emotional therapy. We will examine the roles of kriya, vinyāsā, āsana, prānāyāma, mudra, bandhā, japā, dhāranā and dhyāna. That is cleansing breathing, sequencing to place in intelligent postures, awareness breathing, external and internal symbolization, internal locks, chanting, becoming aware through breath and body and finally sitting in awareness.

Svatantra Nyāya: Finding that the logic inherent within wisdom and compassion equates with love and intelligence. This is the deeper healing, where we end up when we have learned the logic of the body as correct action, breath as correct speech and mind as superior contemplation.

Practical Sessions that will utilize all the yogic tools we speak about so we can actualize the experience of emotional stability. This practice will vary daily as our circumstances and growth require us to be flexible. Although the practice is designed to be all inclusive to most levels of practitioners, for those who have injuries or special needs, times may come where you may also just observe the practice. It can be just as powerful.

Additional Sessions: In a forest, all trees thrive in each others company.Similarly, whenever possible we will engage in joint sangha meditations and discussions.